Last month, before I moved to Georgia, I blogged on “My Top Tip on Moving, Change, Transition.”
Well I sure have been tested. What’s that saying, “I got a taste of my own medicine?” – yep!
I have been in Gainesville, Georgia for a month and a half. Not long at all, considering it is a huge life change.
But it’s had several challenges.
I won’t go into detail of what those challenges are, because if you’ve ever moved you too have probably had similar challenges.
And many of you reading this don’t need to hear my laundry list of challenges, because I’m sure you too probably have your fair share of life difficulties right now.
It’s not the degree of difficulty I want to spotlight, but the response to the new responsibilities.
When I suggested to you, my reader, that spending time with God was the most important aspect to handling a move, change, or transition well, I wasn’t kidding. This advice comes from years and years of my own moving, from reading God’s word, from understanding what works and what doesn’t.
Well, I have been tested with my own advice. With all the challenges from my move here to Gainesville and beginning a new life, I find myself wandering back to my God. To sitting on my bed reading His word, listening to worship music, to processing with my pops above.
Because it’s in this time with Him, that I hear Him. That I know if I’m doing okay or not. To know what to change in my days, or in my focus. I hear Him whisper to me, his love, his correction, his leading. I take the Canoe out on the lake, I drive the long way home for more time with Him, I stay up late and journal my heart to Him.
All because life is difficult. And difficult is good! Difficult is refining. And refining produces results. I’m going after good results. I want the challenges to prove in me who I am, what I am made of. It’s not always fun, but it’s always fruitful.
And you know what, time with Abba Father, it’s always so good! He brings joy, he brings peace, he brings comfort. I’m truly blessed by Him. Why, because in my time with Him, He tells me this…”my son, trust me. I love you.”
So here I am, 6 weeks in, to living in Georgia. And I’m reading my own past blog…”Alone time with God allows you to hear from God. To have SANITY in the process.
To not let the change lead you, but you lead the change.
And all this by letting the leader lead you.
Let him talk to you, lead you, be your sanity and strength.”
